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00:00:08July the first 2007 61 men and women are
00:00:15setting off on an extraordinary boy they're
00:00:22sailing 1,000 miles in the world's
00:00:24largest Viking longship
00:00:30900 years on the ship has been painstakingly
00:00:34built using authentic Viking tools and methods
00:00:39their mission is to discover just how
00:00:42ships like these made the Vikings the
00:00:44rulers of the sea their route will take
00:00:49them across the North Sea around the coast
00:00:52of Scotland to Dublin a city founded by
00:00:55the Vikings just like the Vikings they
00:01:00will have to eat work and sleep on a
00:01:02cramped open ship on the way they'll face
00:01:07physical hardships
00:01:23huge waves it's a very good thing on this
00:01:28book and gale force this is the story of
00:01:35that voyage
00:02:04it's a special day for the small
00:02:06town of Roskilde in Denmark
00:02:14this is the starting point for one of
00:02:17the most ambitious archaeological
00:02:18experiments ever undertaken sailing a
00:02:22reconstructed Viking ship across a
00:02:24thousand miles of ocean it's the
00:02:27responsibility of one man
00:02:28carsten vid I'm the skipper on board
00:02:38I'm responsible for the navigation for the
00:02:41sailing to sail a long ship like this
00:02:45it's the biggest long ship built in many
00:02:48hundred years and nobody knows how to
00:02:50sailor the sea star took ten years of
00:02:53planning four years of building using
00:02:56authentic Viking tools and materials
00:03:01carsten helped make the rigging for the
00:03:03ship and now he's taking the sea stallion
00:03:07out to sea with 61 men and women on board
00:03:11the crew includes experienced sailors from all
00:03:14over the world like New Zealand Dylan
00:03:17coins
00:03:21the group I trained with we were so
00:03:23different there was something with
00:03:24Jehovah's Witness there was some that
00:03:25were very different political points of
00:03:28view but one thing we all had to join us
00:03:30together with sailing and I really
00:03:32enjoyed that there's no arguments we just
00:03:33all loved sailing at home in Ireland
00:03:36dear McMurphy is the skipper of his own
00:03:38boat but here he's just one of the crew
00:03:42I've done a lot of offshore sailing and
00:03:44stuff like that but in a Viking ship with
00:03:45so many people could get quite
00:03:47claustrophobic I reckon after a week or
00:03:49so and I don't speak any Danish we are so
00:03:54many people on board we're living very
00:03:58close I think we have a little less than
00:04:01one square meter each and we have to
00:04:05live there sleep there work there eat
00:04:08that's all part of the experience for
00:04:11Hans Jakob Andersen a 29 year old
00:04:13adventure seeker we all volunteers we
00:04:18knew what we signed up for this is not
00:04:21going to be a comfortable journey it's
00:04:23going to be smelly it's going to be
00:04:25cold it's going to be wet as captain
00:04:31one of Carsten's duties is choosing the
00:04:34crew and putting them through months of
00:04:36training we can't get 100 top tuned
00:04:40long ship sailors they doesn't exist
00:04:43anymore so we we are a group of good
00:04:48sailors and born and then we can take
00:04:52some other people 27 year old Louise
00:04:56Henriksen is a historian of the Viking age
00:04:58and a guide at the Viking ship museum
00:05:01here in Roskilde I haven't been sailing
00:05:04before I haven't been sailing a single
00:05:07square sail or any boat at all before I
00:05:09started working at the museum in contrast
00:05:13to the Viking age Louise is one of 12
00:05:15women on board the ship because the
00:05:19journey is physically and mentally hard
00:05:22they expected to only be men that's
00:05:24interested in that kind of experience
00:05:27but women like to sail as well as well
00:05:30and women like to challenge themselves
00:05:34this voyage has risks for men and women
00:05:37alike even Carsten's family are aware of
00:05:40the dangers
00:05:57the sea stallion is based on a warship
00:06:00discovered here in Roskilde in 1957
00:06:05buried at the bottom of the sea it took
00:06:08years to excavate and conserve the remains
00:06:10at 30 meters it was the largest Viking
00:06:15longship ever discovered although only
00:06:1825 percent of the ship's structure has
00:06:21been preserved they had the parts they
00:06:23needed to work out the shape of the ship
00:06:25and build a working full-scale version
00:06:28the sea stallion it is a reconstruction
00:06:33it is not a copy because we don't know
00:06:35exactly how the original ship was it's a
00:06:37reconstruction a kind of hypothesis and
00:06:41we are testing have we been thinking
00:06:44right about this reconstruction there
00:06:49were different kinds of Viking ship
00:06:51built for different purposes the sea
00:06:54stallion is a longship the supreme
00:06:57Viking military vessel it's much narrower
00:07:00than other Viking ships and archaeologists
00:07:03are keen to find out how such a ship
00:07:05performs in the open sea Dylan has
00:07:09experience of sailing other Viking
00:07:10reconstructions and he knows that
00:07:13sailing a longship will be especially
00:07:15challenging if I could choose a boat to
00:07:18go out in the in the North Sea with it
00:07:20wouldn't be this one it would be one of
00:07:22the trading vessels but yeah being a
00:07:25warship it's all it's it's not built for
00:07:28comfort it's built for speed and to have
00:07:31as many men in it as possible it's
00:07:33it's basically a war machine you can
00:07:42feel it everywhere there's electricity in
00:07:46the air my little daughter she cried
00:07:54crying crying and crying and crying I am
00:07:59beginning to feel a bit anxious I'm
00:08:01beginning to have butterflies in my
00:08:02stomach
00:08:05Ave Caesar those who are about to die
00:08:07salute you
00:08:08I've been thinking about all this now
00:08:10for years so I think okay let's go now
00:08:15we're off it's perfect it's a good feeling
00:08:30it seems that every single water bound
00:08:33vessel is it has joined us
00:08:48it's nice to finally be on our way so and
00:08:53we stopped rowing we're gonna raise the
00:08:54sail now so we can all sit back and relax
00:09:05although the ship has 60 oars on board
00:09:08it's the sail that's the main power
00:09:10source when fully raised it measures
00:09:14112 square meters it's made of woven
00:09:17flax and dyed with natural pigments like
00:09:20ochre today the wind is perfect blowing
00:09:31from the south soon the ship has left
00:09:34Roskilde behind the plan is to head
00:09:42north to Norway then across the North
00:09:45Sea to the Orkney Islands through the
00:09:49Hebrides and into the Irish Sea the
00:09:52destination is Dublin a city founded by
00:09:55the Vikings and ruled by them for more
00:09:57than three centuries
00:10:02by analyzing the word of the original
00:10:05Viking ship archaeologists discovered it
00:10:08was built using trees felled near Dublin
00:10:10in the summer of 1042
00:10:15the project's aim is to test sail the
00:10:18replica in its home waters but that
00:10:21means a journey of a thousand miles
00:10:23through unpredictable scenes
00:10:31and the very first night the weather
00:10:34takes a turn for the worse
00:10:35and the wind is getting ready for the
00:10:37the wind has faced at the end to the
00:10:40the winds and the winds and the
00:10:40winds and the winds and the winds and
00:10:42the winds and the winds of the
00:10:58land and the winds and the winds and
00:11:05Very good, very quick. Not so good weather, but still good wind.
00:11:12We've been sailing around 160 nautical miles, so that's very good.
00:11:23One day in and the conditions are every bit as bad as Hans Jakob feared.
00:11:28It's been cold, it's been wet, there's been a bit of seasickness.
00:11:33I don't think anyone slept that much.
00:11:35You managed to get any sleep?
00:11:37No, not at all, not at all. Maybe some minutes, maybe half an hour.
00:11:42And I've been a little seasick, because I'm so tired.
00:11:49Only 48 days to go.
00:11:58With less than a square metre of space each,
00:12:00it's a difficult environment to live and work in.
00:12:05Already Louise, the Viking historian, has been injured.
00:12:09How are you doing?
00:12:10I'm not so good.
00:12:12What happened overnight?
00:12:14I hurt my knee.
00:12:17So now it's packed in ice, and I've gotten some painkillers,
00:12:22so I'm a bit tired.
00:12:24But the ship sailed really fast.
00:12:26I think we reached 9.3 knots.
00:12:29So it was a great sailing, but it was raining and a bit tough.
00:12:36The ship is still in the relatively sheltered strait between Denmark and Norway.
00:12:41But the wind is so strong that Carsten orders the sail to be reduced in size or reefed.
00:12:50We tied some ropes in the bottom end of top together to make the area smaller.
00:12:55That's needed when it's heavy wind.
00:12:59Deciding when to reef is one of Carsten's biggest responsibilities.
00:13:04A duty that will turn out to be critical during this voyage.
00:13:12As the day goes on, the rain gets heavier.
00:13:16And on an open boat, there's nowhere to shelter.
00:13:18There's nowhere to be.
00:13:19There's nowhere to be.
00:13:26There's nowhere to be.
00:13:26Well, it rained all night.
00:13:28And it rained all morning.
00:13:30And it's been raining all afternoon.
00:13:46How does it taste?
00:13:48It's chicken curry.
00:13:50Like Mama made it.
00:13:52Cheers.
00:14:02The waves are up to four meters high, large enough for the ship to surf down.
00:14:10Unlike modern ships, the sea stallion has almost no keel.
00:14:15Instead, it's the flow of water around the hull that keeps it stable in the big waves.
00:14:21Like a bicycle, the ship is most balanced when it's moving forward.
00:14:36The ship seems to be handling the wind and waves.
00:14:40But the weather is taking its toll on the crew.
00:14:44Several of the young women on board are wet and cold.
00:14:47And the early signs of hypothermia are setting in.
00:14:56Louise's condition is also a cause for concern.
00:14:59Her knee injury is preventing her from being active, putting her at particular risk from the cold.
00:15:08The only way to get them dry would be to move them to the support ship, Cable One, that's accompanying
00:15:14the sea stallion for the first half of the voyage.
00:15:18But in the big waves, transferring them would also be risky.
00:15:23With conditions deteriorating, Carsten decides to take the risk and transfer them.
00:15:49Sofie, a trainee teacher from Denmark, is the first to be moved.
00:15:54Well, I've been cold since midnight.
00:15:57I've been freezing, I've been shaking, shivering, and I've been putting on more and more clothes and I couldn't get
00:16:02warm again.
00:16:04So Carsten looked at me around eight o'clock and said,
00:16:07I think it would be a good idea if you go to Cable One and get a hot shower and
00:16:13some coffee.
00:16:15So I did, reluctantly, but in the end I think it's a good idea.
00:16:19But I would like to be out there because that's where I'm supposed to be.
00:16:25But tomorrow I'll be wearing woolen underwear and woolen trousers as well and a woolen jumper and my survivor suit
00:16:31and big boots and a hat and gloves.
00:16:34Taking no chances.
00:16:37Louise also makes it on board for some medical care.
00:16:41I had some painkillers and now I'm going to tape it so I can walk on it and then it's
00:16:45back to the sea stallion.
00:16:46I don't want to miss a minute.
00:16:50With the wind now at 4-7, the rest of the crew continue sailing into the night.
00:16:58It's about 11 o'clock. It's pouring down again.
00:17:03The thing is soaking wet and it seems that we might be in the harbour at 2 o'clock in
00:17:12the night.
00:17:13After 36 hours of intense sailing, the sea stallion reaches the coast of Norway.
00:17:21They've sailed 275 miles at an average speed of seven knots.
00:17:35This is our campsite.
00:17:39You can see that everybody has taken out their clothes for drying.
00:17:47900 years ago, Viking ships would have been regular visitors to these shores, stopping off to replenish their supplies.
00:17:57Even for hardy Viking warriors, a night on land would have been a welcome break from the discomforts of the
00:18:03sea.
00:18:07It would also have given them a chance to make any necessary repairs on their ships.
00:18:14This crew's first job is to investigate the squeaking from the top of the mast.
00:18:20All the noise that came from up there is trying to fix that.
00:18:23We have to grease it in there and it will hopefully stop so we can get some sleep.
00:18:29The aim of the voyage is to find out how the ship reacts to the open sea.
00:18:35With the rigors of the North Sea crossing looming large, it's vital to examine the ship for wear and tear.
00:18:42Dylan has already discovered some signs of damage.
00:18:46These ropes here that attach the sail to the yard, this big bit of wood is the yard.
00:18:53They were starting to bite into the yard so we have to see what we can do about that.
00:18:58They're actually starting to wear a groove in the yard.
00:19:0861-year-old Canadian Eric Nielsen is one of the oldest and toughest crew members.
00:19:13But even for him, it's been a challenging start.
00:19:16It was a lot of rain. The rain was relentless, it seemed. They just never stopped.
00:19:22It was rough, that's for sure. A lot of people were suffering. A lot of people were cold and wet.
00:19:28Hyperthermia, I guess, were setting in on a couple of people.
00:19:30But for 23-year-old David Short, a student from Greater Manchester, it's all part of the adventure.
00:19:37We didn't come to go low in a boat in a pond.
00:19:40This is the whole challenge for the crew and the boat is these conditions and the long sailing stretches.
00:19:48It's been a tough start, but actually one of the best starts we could hope for so that we can
00:19:54really prepare ourselves physically and mentally for what's ahead when we get out into the North Sea.
00:20:02The winds of the last few days have died out. So today the crew have to take to the oars.
00:20:08They're going to row up the coast of Norway, bringing them a little closer to the Orkney Islands.
00:20:18This is what it's all about.
00:20:26I hope for the wind, because this will be tough.
00:20:32The ability to manoeuvre, even when there is no wind, was one of the great advantages of the longship.
00:20:42The sea stallion has 60 oars on board, but will usually row with 30 of them,
00:20:47whilst half the crew rests.
00:20:55This way they can keep rowing for hours.
00:21:07But progress is slow.
00:21:12They only make it a short way along the coast to Lindesnes, the southernmost tip of Norway.
00:21:19It's a perfect point from which to head west across the North Sea.
00:21:24But for now, the sea stallion isn't going anywhere.
00:21:30The sea stallion is going anywhere.
00:21:58north sea crossing and that depends on the weather the wind is still too westerly and too hard to
00:22:06cross the north sea we don't go out if the conditions are dangerous we wait good morning
00:22:28the vikings too were at the mercy of the weather and could be stranded in one place for a long
00:22:34time
00:22:36in the sagas you often read about boats coming to maybe a big farm a rich man and he's taking
00:22:46care
00:22:47of them they're staying in his long house for weeks and months and sometimes all over the winter
00:22:57for days the crew sit in harbor waiting for the right winds but each day brings bad news
00:23:13it's really bad everybody's trying to figure out what to do it's terrible it's just terrible
00:23:20i've been feeling a bit of tension amongst the crew members these last couple of days
00:23:25we are in a quite small harvest that there hasn't been much to do i can i can understand now
00:23:31how the
00:23:32vikings chose to pillage and rape and plunder to relieve the boredom carsten decides it's time
00:23:40for some emergency training to the relief of hans jacob yeah we've been here for a week
00:23:47we need distractions and lots of them first the crew put on their survival suits these are designed
00:23:55to keep you alive in the cold waters of the north sea for up to an hour we're going to
00:24:00jump in the
00:24:01water now and try how it is to get picked up by the boats in the water i've been told
00:24:05that they've got
00:24:06jumping like this i'd hope to do a backflip the suits are too uncomfortable to wear all the time
00:24:16but if conditions turn nasty carsten will order everyone to suit up it could be a lifesaver
00:24:25the crew hope they never have to evacuate for real but they know that it's a possibility
00:24:32the greatest danger is from large waves the ship has already faced waves of four meters on the crossing
00:24:41to norway if the ship were to encounter a storm in the north sea or the atlantic it could face
00:24:49waves
00:24:49of eight meters or more large enough to capsize the ship then it would be down to the support ship
00:24:56to
00:24:57attempt to rescue the crew as an experienced sailor in ireland diomed is used to being in cold water
00:25:13it's refreshing that's quite good actually a little bit dry got a small dark water down the front of
00:25:19the suit but i don't think i'd collar close properly so you know it's good to try that out now
00:25:24after nine
00:25:26days stuck in harbour finally carsten gives the order prepare to sail goodies for the night chocolate
00:25:35and peanuts and biscuits we expect to be in scotland late sunday so that's actually the longest stretch
00:25:43on open sea that we've ever tried on in the sea stallion so i think these boxes will come in
00:25:48handy
00:25:49the goal is to reach the orkney islands but with the wind still unstable carsten knows that's far
00:25:56from guaranteed the wind could get harder that's not good not too hard because if we are not over
00:26:05there in time it will turn west then we have to sail back again and it will be it will
00:26:13not be good
00:26:14after four days at sea the waves are going to be huge we've had big waves before but these are
00:26:26going
00:26:26to be huge if the wind really starts you know we have to keep the the people who are rowing
00:26:33we have to
00:26:34keep them in shape make sure that they're fit for fight this being our prime prime horse you know we
00:26:41have to make sure that he really really really stays fit sounds good to be getting out of here and
00:26:48it's uh i think it's about time too because uh all the lads are starting to get a bit horny
00:26:53so it's uh
00:26:53it's a good good good time to get them away from there from the coast we can see the weather
00:26:58forecasts
00:26:59but we still don't know what to expect out there everybody's in the mood now uh for sailing across
00:27:07the north sea and i think we're all we're all sort of thinking north sea here we come
00:27:17after a week of waiting the sea stallion is on the move again but the hoped for winds haven't arrived
00:27:25now we have the summer and sun at last but unfortunately not the easterly wind
00:27:35the wind isn't suitable for sailing across the north sea so they're going to make their way up the
00:27:41norwegian coast heading towards stavanger 100 miles north this is the point nearest to orkney but it will
00:27:51still mean a crossing of almost 300 miles of open sea
00:28:08the voyage isn't only an experiment in sailing it's also a social experiment
00:28:14how did the vikings organize a crew to live and work in such cramped conditions
00:28:22for this voyage they're using a traditional scandinavian system that dates back to the vikings
00:28:30the ship is divided into six sections known as rules each is a social unit with its own responsibilities
00:28:43this is the four ship and the four ship is manned by eight eight persons the functions here are the
00:28:51front of the sail and we always have a watch in the front looking what's what's ahead in my opinion
00:28:57the most beautiful place because we have the best view the next room is busiest when sailing into the
00:29:04wind or tacking our work is to handle the front of the sail when we're taking the wind
00:29:18this is the midship and um we're centered around the mast we take care of the center sheet which is
00:29:25helping shape the sail there's a lot of road though often have a rope hanging in your face when trying
00:29:33to
00:29:35sleep most corny humor but uh the funniest people just behind the mast is the drag room when we're
00:29:45sitting close to the wind we have to make sure that the sail doesn't catch back wind
00:29:51and we'll make sure there's no water in the bottom of the boat that's our job as well
00:29:56it's the best room in the boat to be in yeah near the back is the aft room where hans
00:30:02jacob works
00:30:03sleeps and eats we handle the braces and the sheets we call it the sun deck back here because it's
00:30:09generally it's warmer yeah it's very nice see everyone's they're not sleeping they're smiling
00:30:20finally the headquarters of the ship the lifting i'm here as a skipper and the first mate and second
00:30:30mate are here and a helmsman you can overview everything from here always know where we are
00:30:37where we're going to sometimes it can be a little difficult to get the information out
00:30:44they're sitting and oh where are we going tell us and i understand them really i understand them we
00:30:50forget it becomes sort of your family when you're sailing these are the people that you're close to
00:30:59when sleeping eating and and resting
00:31:10the whole boat empty four hours jesus killer
00:31:18four minutes
00:31:21whoa
00:31:28without warning one of the large wooden pegs has splintered the shroud pin just snapped now we need
00:31:34to change it
00:31:37the shrouds are the vertical ropes that keep the mast securely in place
00:31:42there are five shrouds on each side and they have to be kept tight using wooden shroud pins
00:31:51that will broke off yeah it's difficult to say what's uh what's uh the problem
00:31:59dylan has been sailing wooden ships for years and thinks this won't be a one-off
00:32:06when the boat builders made this pin they made it straight
00:32:09but now it's uh it's bending like a like a bow just before you fire an arrow so uh yeah
00:32:15my money's on
00:32:16this one next the aim of the voyage is to test the sea stallion to see if the reconstruction is
00:32:24correct dylan thinks that the pin breaking might be evidence of a design fault for the shrouds to have
00:32:32any effect they have to be extremely tight and the tighter they are the more pressure there is on the
00:32:38shroud pins here right from the beginning it was one of the things i always wondered about with this
00:32:43boat is because the angle is so sharp either the boat may have been wider or the mast may have
00:32:48been
00:32:48shorter the shroud pin breaking was only a minor problem but the ship has another far more serious
00:32:59fault that will put the crew in danger for now all is calm and it's time for lunch
00:33:09each room looks after its own which usually consists of danish rye bread but not for everyone
00:33:18partaking the old bread we have our own stash of non-rye variety the lead bread is for the danes
00:33:27we
00:33:27have a we've got white bread of some description which is a little bit easier and keep it quiet on
00:33:33the
00:33:33palate in the stomach i think i don't know where we are how far we've traveled i know we're still
00:33:46in
00:33:46norway which is about as much as i know and there's a bar over there the only bar in town
00:33:50is about 200
00:33:51yards away so the crew are quite happy about that
00:34:02the next morning the winds are still not suitable for crossing the north sea
00:34:07so they have no option but to sail on up the coast the rain is back and unknown to the
00:34:13crew
00:34:14a vital part of the ship is near breaking point
00:34:23with the wind at 25 knots the ship is making good speed when suddenly the rudder breaks free
00:34:38the leather strap that attaches the rudder to the boat has snapped leaving the ship unable to steer and
00:34:55vulnerable
00:34:55we have to take the sail down because if they can't steer it then it can be in danger
00:34:59and be out of control in the wind so we wish to get the sail down
00:35:05karsten's team managed to fix the rudder strap but their problems have only just begun
00:35:15and i'm not sure exactly the reason why but when they put the sail up again there was something
00:35:20wrong with the top corner it was spongy in some way so we have to take the sail down again
00:35:25to try and fix that
00:35:28with the sail now lying across the ship it is at the mercy of the waves
00:35:33worse a rope has snagged on the sail
00:35:36the only way to free it is for someone to climb out along the yard
00:35:43one of the crew members attempts to untangle the rope but without success
00:35:52because the ship is no longer moving through the water it's much less stable and starts to rock violently
00:36:04to make matters worse the loose part of the sail starts scooping up water
00:36:10if it gets too heavy it could even capsize the ship
00:36:14one of the crew members is unable to loosen the rope they have no option but to cut it
00:36:46the sail is fixed and there's a new rudder strap carsten can sail the ship out of danger
00:36:54but he knows it could have been much worse
00:36:58it was dramatic yeah the waves were quite quite big but not as big as they will be on the
00:37:04north
00:37:04sea so it was very good actually it was very good that it happened right now very good it broke
00:37:10off
00:37:10here exactly how the vikings attached the rudder to the hull is unknown since no trace was found on the
00:37:21original ship
00:37:24it seems as though this leather strap just isn't strong enough
00:37:30a fault which will become even more significant before their journey is over i don't think it have
00:37:37made them scared but maybe more focused maybe more concentrated on this is not not only fun
00:37:53at last the forecast is for easterly winds so late at night the crew prepare to set off for the
00:38:00north sea
00:38:02it's the longest single leg of the voyage and the first time the sea stallion will have faced so many
00:38:09days and nights at sea this is what we've trained for we're hungry and ready to go it's midnight and
00:38:22the
00:38:23weather is okay but there's no wind not much wind but it should come in an hour or two so
00:38:32now we are
00:38:32rowing out out on the sea we have one or two hours rowing as you see now we will be
00:38:43out for four nights
00:38:45and that's a long time i'm a bit worried about that how much can we take because there was a
00:38:51lot of rain
00:38:52coming a lot of rain just set off uh from norway on our way to augen
00:39:19the sea stallion now faces a journey of 300 miles across open water no viking longship has attempted this
00:39:29for 900 years just as then everything depends on catching the wind
00:39:40the morning is supposed to bring with it a good easterly wind ready to carry them across the north sea
00:39:49eric can finally take a break from rowing
00:39:53i'm a little bit chill actually but that's probably just from the rowing i guess a little bit sweaty and
00:39:59wet and clammy
00:40:04leaving the harbor was nice but when we reached the open sea here there was we've been pretty much
00:40:09be calm because almost no wind at all
00:40:13we're selling 0.1 knot i think and it's practically staying still here and i'm a little disappointed
00:40:26of the north sea
00:40:35i called the weather forecast again and now they've changed it and we have a little northeasterly now
00:40:43and it will die completely out during the afternoon and then a southwest gale will come and that's bad
00:40:54if they attempted to sail or row across the north sea they would get caught in the gale which could
00:41:00be
00:41:01dangerous which leaves carsten with an agonizing decision so now we have two alternatives one is to
00:41:10go back to the norwegian coast wait for the wind
00:41:16that's what the viking would have done we are not vikings and we have a time schedule it's a better
00:41:25alternative to to tow now then we miss the north sea but we still have a chance
00:41:34to sail the ship in its home waters from the north of scotland to to the irish sea
00:41:54the sea stallion must take a turn it was a bit disappointing because we'd all been looking
00:42:01forward to uh sailing across the north sea by ourselves by sail without these deadlines i think
00:42:07we would have waited till the right weather came but we just don't have the time to be able to
00:42:13say
00:42:13we've sailed over the north sea in a viking ship i think everyone was quite looking forward to that
00:42:16but uh yeah that that dream's gone now anyway so we're tired and we've put up the tent across the
00:42:24yard
00:42:25but now the decision has been made and now it's up to us to uh to deal with it
00:42:37the sea stallion is towed through the night
00:42:43but next morning there's good news for louise and the crew i woke up at 10 30 this morning and
00:42:49just
00:42:49got the message that we were setting sails and and letting the uh the rope for cable one go so
00:42:54that was nice
00:42:59to the relief of the crew the sea stallion can release the toe and sail part of the way across
00:43:04the north sea
00:43:06it's nice to be sailing um holes with the window
00:43:14whilst a storm that is the norwegian coast here frustratingly conditions are peaceful
00:43:20see the sea is quite calm and it's it would have been wonderful to have to say we have saved
00:43:27all the way
00:43:28i must admit that i've i've stopped listening to weather forecasts
00:43:35even with modern technology the sea stallion has been at the mercy of the unpredictable weather
00:43:41for the vikings sailing the north sea meant a journey into the unknown
00:43:47no one knows how many vikings perished in the north sea
00:43:51but driven by the desire for glory and riches viking warriors were willing to risk everything to reach
00:43:58the british isles for the crew that goal is now just a few hours sail away
00:44:11once again the sea stallion arrives in harbor in the middle of the night and in the pouring rain
00:44:30the crew wake to find themselves local celebrities before columbus was even born let alone had the idea
00:44:37how many people are on the boat we are 65 people on board the residents of orkney are well aware
00:44:44of their
00:44:44long viking history viking historian louise has come with hans jacob to see some of that history for herself
00:44:58she's not the first viking visitor to this stone age too something here sort of like a dragon
00:45:09or a lion they were really passing time here weren't they this graffiti was carved by viking raiders
00:45:18almost 900 years ago they were caught here during the storm they were trying to um to take over orkney
00:45:29there's supposed to be stories and treasures and heroic crusades and beautiful women as well
00:45:38uh the fact that they've written all these fun stories uh tells us a bit about their personalities
00:45:43as well be nice just thinking about the the ships lying in the fjord just outside the mound
00:45:53them sitting in here passing time joking about as we do today a viking warship would keep close to the
00:46:00coastlines and cross open sea on the shortest distances between land uh which which was
00:46:07probably the route that we've been taking with the sea stallion going up the north coast and uh crossing
00:46:11over to orkney it's time to leave orkney and for a change the weather is ideal last night uh carsten
00:46:23emptied his pockets and he found this uh coin special coin that was given to him and we're pretty sure
00:46:30that
00:46:30that's our bad luck coin because he threw it away and now the sun is shining and everything seems to
00:46:36be
00:46:37all better yeah with this weather it's fantastic it's good yeah it's meant to be i'm not just
00:46:43superstitious at all but just to be clear about that and now we have a perfect win
00:47:04actually it was moving once again uh seeing so many people at the harbor
00:47:17ahead of them they have what carsten knows could be one of the most dangerous stretches of water
00:47:24here along the north coast of scotland they're exposed to waves from three sides the atlantic
00:47:31the norwegian sea and the north sea but for now the winds are light and the sea is calm
00:47:41so carsten decides to sail on through the night
00:47:47people who are on duty being very quiet whispering just enjoying the quietness
00:47:55enjoying the view it never really gets dark at sea in the summer night the calm weather means a clear
00:48:02night but that brings with it the cold already the temperature is dropping fast
00:48:11sleeping bags aren't allowed in case the ship capsizes during the night
00:48:15so the only protection is from woollen blankets
00:48:21with different watches throughout the day you'd be on from let's say eight until 12 or 12 until
00:48:28four four to eight whatever um so half the crew sleeps the other half um like i'm on watch now
00:48:34at the moment so my job is to keep an eye on a certain part of the sale when sailing
00:48:38like this
00:48:40without tacking being on watch is quite calm as well and you don't really have to do a lot
00:48:46you can just sit and talk
00:48:54at last it's david's turn to get some sleep
00:49:00it's the watch change it's 12 o'clock so they're getting out of bed we may go to bed
00:49:05and then the five o'clock they're the privilege of waking us up
00:49:08it's turning out to be the coldest night yet and sophie has to force herself to get up
00:49:14i'm now on shift yeah do you have a good sleep no it's too cold
00:49:26so how long are you on for now four hours too far one band underneath the cones oh i can't
00:49:33wait
00:49:55it's also been a tough night for louise it's really cold when you're just lying still
00:50:02i froze my my toes was ice cold so i didn't get much sleep i'm really tired now
00:50:24this morning like every morning there's porridge for breakfast what's this i think it's porous soup
00:50:33it has to be porridge but it's a little bit thin i'm sorry why why don't you like
00:50:58some people think that it gets too boring
00:51:02i mean it's no more different than waking up beside the same woman every morning
00:51:06and uh might as well put porridge every morning part of the experiment is finding out exactly how
00:51:13much food the crew consumed during the voyage so everything is recorded that's the job of solvai
00:51:21one of two cooks on board we put sugar and butter in it as well and raisins and peanuts and
00:51:27cinnamon and
00:51:29jam it's a it's a good carbohydrates helps to keep the stomach going well so you can also go to
00:51:36the
00:51:36toilet and then not get constipation the toilet itself is simple but effective
00:51:46it sits there when you're done there's a normally another bucket here that should wash out the bucket
00:51:51and everything goes in the sea and feed the fish
00:52:00the north coast has been much calmer than expected
00:52:03but now the ship is nearing cape roth the northwest tip of scotland
00:52:08an area notorious for rough seas due to its exposed position
00:52:15at home when i've been thinking about cape breath i thought great storms couldn't sail for weeks
00:52:24but this is very easy
00:52:27as a retired geologist eric is fascinated by the landscape
00:52:34but this is uh this is the highest and most scenic part of the trip so far and this is
00:52:39the part of
00:52:39the trip that i wanted to be on right from the beginning and i'm glad i made it that's for
00:52:45sure
00:52:49it's beautiful it's just a flat country in denmark so this is beautiful
00:53:03so they've now sailed over 600 miles they're halfway through their seven-week voyage and despite the
00:53:13long wait in norway they're back on schedule
00:53:22and on the island of sky there's a treat waiting for the crew
00:53:28from all the girlfriends
00:53:33like gold
00:53:38but it's also time for a spring clean
00:53:42very important day because we have to clean everything down under the floor
00:53:48all this stuff that fell between the cracks during the last three and a half weeks starting to smell
00:53:52of it so
00:53:56peanuts and bread and cheese and fish pieces of sausage and bread and stuff laying in water for two weeks
00:54:12for more than three centuries the vikings dominated this area
00:54:17ships crossing between scandinavia and the western viking empire
00:54:21would have sailed this very route and stopped at sky for rest and supplies
00:54:28there have been very many vikings here 900 years ago there was a great big fleet of 200 long ships
00:54:35coming through this narrow sound between sky and the mainland
00:54:41some vikings settled on the islands and left their mark in the norse place names
00:54:48some present-day residents can even trace their ancestry back to the vikings like glenn a member
00:54:54of the scottish mcleod clan my middle name is torquil it's a scandinavian name which means
00:55:00thor this is what attracts me to the whole project because i feel like i'm reconnecting with my ancestors
00:55:08glenn is joining the sea stallion here on sky it's the culmination of a lifelong dream
00:55:14i was obsessed with viking ships and the history and then of course as i became older and more aware
00:55:21i realized that my own roots were viking that we are indeed descended from norwegians who settled
00:55:29in the western isles a thousand years ago fingers crossed we have a great run down to dublin
00:55:41they're now sailing through the inner hebrides carston has decided to sail between the islands
00:55:47and the mainland where the ship is sheltered then the plan is to head south towards the isle of man
00:55:55but here in the north channel the ship will lose the shelter of the hebrides and face waves coming
00:56:03straight off the atlantic it's here the sea stallion will face its toughest test
00:56:16the next day an old problem returns
00:56:23they tightened one of the shroud pins i said to them they should they should stop it because it
00:56:29was just it was getting ridiculous they were so tight and then one snapped
00:56:35and then i asked them how many how many do you have to break and before you stop tightening them
00:56:40and they just kept on doing it and they broke another one
00:56:45now we've got no shroud pins left because they've snapped three of them already
00:56:50it's worse than bad seamanship it's stupid dylan is worried that one shroud pin breaking could start
00:56:57a domino effect like we've got five shrouds on one side and as soon as one snaps and there's going
00:57:03to be
00:57:03a lot more pressure on the four and then if another one snaps then it's basically just three shrouds
00:57:08uh taking all the pressure and um it could be a potentially uh dangerous situation
00:57:14in fact it's another part of the ship that will turn out to be the real danger
00:57:31oh my precious
00:57:36well we have had some beer and some a lot of whiskey actually fine
00:57:49some of the our group has made a sauna they're just vikings they're dames is what they do
00:57:55they get naked they get into a hot sauna get really cooked up whiskey down into the ice cold water
00:58:02back in
00:58:13this scene tonight you know even though we're modern day people we could very well be on a viking camp
00:58:20a thousand years ago because the air is is virtually unchanged from that period and it's just likely that
00:58:29the longships did come an anchor here on the way to dublin all those years ago
00:58:53the sea stallion is sailing through the inner hebrides on course for isla but here carsten faces a new
00:59:01challenge the tidal currents
00:59:05yeah you can see the small whirlpools you can say
00:59:09yeah you can see the current in here it's turning around the water
00:59:15from denmark to here it's very different we don't have any tide in denmark we don't have any cars
00:59:25can be quite dangerous because at certain times depending on winds and tides
00:59:29the atlantic are swirling around these islands they're actually whirlpools and sometimes you can
00:59:37actually see the spout as if the water was going down the bath i've only seen it in pictures and
00:59:43books
00:59:44before now and to go through wow you know this is quite an experience with the help of the currents
00:59:51the
00:59:51ship reaches a new top speed we actually reached a speed of 12 and a half knots with the current
00:59:59assistance as we were really moving so it was just incredible
01:00:11the ship arrives at the island of isla here they have to negotiate a rocky treacherous entrance
01:00:18but viking long built with a very shallow draft the entire 30 meter ship can navigate in just over
01:00:26one meter of water this allowed the vikings to sail up rivers and make surprise attacks
01:00:37and it allows our crew to moor at the back of a famous whiskey distillery
01:00:43but they're not here for the drinking for the next few days they're going to be doing test sales
01:00:49gathering data for the ship builders and archaeologists
01:01:04we simply test how fast does the boat sail on the different angles of wind in a different speed of
01:01:13wind how fast does a boat go against the wind when you're attacking to get some precise figures
01:01:24now we took the sail down and try to row against the wind to compare it with attacking what's the
01:01:32best to
01:01:33tackle to roll
01:01:39the ship has to travel the same short stretch of water over and over again using different sail settings
01:01:52it's important research but hard work i really don't like rowing that much i do sometimes but today i'd rather
01:02:00just sail with the same stuff and sit in the sun and enjoy the nice weather but i've used all
01:02:07the twine
01:02:08soon so we can't do any repairs in the sail if that breaks better stop in a minute
01:02:15after four hours carsten is seeing results they've discovered that when heading into the wind rowing is
01:02:23nearly twice as fast as sailing a little less than one knot when we checked and 1.8 to 2
01:02:32knots when we
01:02:33rolled results like these will help historians understand the strategies that viking warships would have
01:02:43used but test sailing isn't universally popular the wind's perfect today we should be out of here
01:02:49they should this test sailing business is absolute waste of my time we've been through hell to get
01:02:56here we've been getting rain and i don't know this and that and now the wind is perfect we should
01:03:02strike when the iron is hot we should be out of here we should be sailing down to where we're
01:03:06meant to
01:03:06be going but instead we're just sitting here pissing around testing if the boat can do this and the
01:03:11boat can do that we could have gone down there now but down in northern island it's not a good
01:03:18place
01:03:19for making these test sailings there's a lot of current in the north north channel and around wrestling
01:03:26island a lot of current so it's better up here so we have to make these testing that's part of
01:03:32the
01:03:33of the project what carsten doesn't know is that stormy weather is on its way
01:03:48he's taking a gamble that they'll be able to complete the test sailing
01:03:51and make it to ireland whilst the favorable winds last
01:04:00at least the prolonged stay in isla has given glenn a chance to see some of the island's history
01:04:07this place is the stronghold of mcdonald's who are the lords of the isles and the mcdonald's and
01:04:13the other great clans the mcleods which i am uh we ruled the west of scotland for centuries
01:04:21at the the feet of the warrior there's the highland galley which was a descendant of the viking ships
01:04:27which was used in these waters you can see the rigging you see the mast stays and the yard
01:04:36it's and it's got the class you know the classic viking shape double-ended with a high stem post and
01:04:42stern post in every respect it's it's a viking ship which is just slightly adapted
01:04:58in the north channel at last after three full days of testing it's time to move on
01:05:04but the stormy weather has arrived down in the north channel between ireland and
01:05:11in scotland there's a very rough sea there's been a gale out in the atlantic with more strong winds
01:05:20forecast for tomorrow the skipper carsten announces there's no option but to wait
01:05:26not the news sophie was hoping for i'd like to move on actually there's not a lot to do here
01:05:32it's been a week it's been a win it's no way all over again
01:05:36yeah the evening's weather forecast confirms the bad news
01:05:43today monday the 6th of august there are warnings of gales in fitzroy hebrides fair isle and pharaohs
01:05:51increasing six to gale eight perhaps severe gale nine
01:05:55later to everyone's surprise the next morning the situation appears to have changed and carsten
01:06:06come into our tent and said get up we are saving it was a surprise you can call it
01:06:13during the night the storm started moving north instead so we were awakened around six
01:06:20to told not to get any breakfast because we were sailing as fast as possible
01:06:34i understand we're heading towards the island man perhaps and so that that should take us probably
01:06:39the next the better part of the next 24 hours i guess 20 hours or something like that and we
01:06:44seem
01:06:44to have a nice winds so it should be a nice sail
01:06:53so we were standing in the direction of the sea and we saw a few people walking around in shock
01:07:01because they could only get yogurt and bread
01:07:10just a few miles out to sea there's a problem
01:07:15once again it's the rudder
01:07:20the rope that holds the tiller into the boat just got a bit loose so they're just going to pull
01:07:25the
01:07:25sail down and tighten it it's it's too flexible it stretches all the time and we have to tighten it
01:07:34all the time Vibica on the helm has been finding it increasingly difficult to steer we're going
01:07:40towards rough sea and makes it dangerous activity we don't want to have any more problems with it so
01:07:48now we put on the reserve this knot on the end was here when they started so it's been pulled
01:07:58out
01:08:06as the ship sails on it soon leaves the shelter of the Western Isles here they're exposed to waves
01:08:13sweeping in from the Atlantic the sea stallion is about to experience the full force of the open
01:08:26sea you can hear and you can see it's a little bit rough here right now and wet as usual
01:08:32as the winds
01:08:34get stronger Carsten orders everyone into their survival gear if the ship should capsize these
01:08:43suits will significantly increase the crew's survival time in the water but they're not comfortable
01:08:50yeah what do you call it tight on the on the back yeah yeah but uh better safe than sorry
01:09:00it takes time to change the clothes because it's slippery and it goes up and down and the
01:09:06waves come in and you have to your duty to
01:09:18a big wave came just in front of me okay okay one more there will be one more oh dear
01:09:29you can see can you
01:09:30see oh my god who went under yeah so these are quite big actually
01:09:47the one thing I'm concerned about is the rudder that's shown to be the weak point in this book the
01:09:55leather strap holding the rudder has already snapped once on this voyage but if it were to break again
01:10:01in these conditions the situation would be much more serious the sale has already been reduced in size
01:10:10twice as the wind increases to force seven cast and orders it to be taken in further
01:10:19taking three reefs but we only have practiced that we've never been out in the world for three reefs
01:10:31Dylan for third third reef yeah yeah I think it's just plain and safe he's worried about if the
01:10:39the tiller breaks if the rudder were to break it would leave the ship out of control because then we
01:10:48cannot steer we cannot get anywhere because the waves are too too high to roll so in that kind of
01:11:00case we
01:11:02our only option is actually to get told by
01:11:14whoo how's the summit oh it's nice and salty now with a bit of seawater
01:11:27now that we're rolling too much got a lot of water coming in through the oil holes
01:11:35in the drag room pumping out the water has become a vital times I think I got 150 meters I
01:11:44can easily
01:11:45take out another hundred leaders and there's still plenty of water coming in so Carsten's decision to
01:11:54reef the sale proves correct as the wind continues to build it seems as though the store hasn't moved
01:12:14as far north as predicted and now the sea stallion is caught in the open sea facing stronger winds than
01:12:21it
01:12:21has ever faced before is he okay I think he's a little bit seasick but that's yeah that's normal the
01:12:40world's pretty rough
01:13:10and they had to shout it like about five times too many times and that situation should once and it
01:13:16happens
01:13:16it's about a split second after it's what's going to happen as we're cutting round we're going to get
01:13:22okay
01:13:25yeah
01:13:27yeah
01:13:27yeah
01:13:30yeah
01:13:33yeah
01:13:34yeah
01:13:34yeah
01:13:52yeah
01:14:00I'm not quite sure what they're going to be doing with it, and I think I'm just trying
01:14:07to get the yard into the boat.
01:14:13Lowering the sail prevents the wind from blowing the ship over, but it also makes the ship
01:14:18much less stable in the big waves.
01:14:23Never a good thing on this boat, on most other boats it's safety, but not on this boat.
01:14:30Once again, the ship's weak point is the problem.
01:14:35Here's the rudder again, I think.
01:14:42Our rudder strap broke again, and the wind has increased a lot.
01:14:53Now we take some more reefs, and we try to sail out of here.
01:15:17We're making the sail smaller because there's so much wind right now, and we're trying to
01:15:21make it this.
01:15:23I think it's the last rope, so now we can't make it any smaller.
01:15:27Come on.
01:15:45When it's moving forwards, the sea stallion can ride over the waves, but with the sail down,
01:15:51it's at the mercy of the wind and sea.
01:15:55The ship will try and get diagonally on the wind direction, so we get the swells in from
01:16:05the side, which makes it very uncomfortable, but they're working on it.
01:16:18It's been 20 minutes since the rudder strap broke, leaving the ship helpless.
01:16:24If a large wave were to break over the ship, it could fill it with water and even sink it.
01:16:32This is probably going to be bigger in a few minutes, so hopefully we'll get that rudder fixed.
01:16:54Finally, the rudder is fixed, and the reefing is complete.
01:16:58They can raise the sail, which is now just one-sixth of its normal size.
01:17:14We've got the sail back up.
01:17:15As you can see, it's very small now.
01:17:17It's been reefed right to the limit of our capability.
01:17:24Right now, we're just floating along, doing, what was it, seven knots?
01:17:31Nine knots.
01:17:32Nine knots for almost our sails.
01:17:36The wind is still at force nine, and the waves are still powerful, but with the ship
01:17:42moving forward, it writes the swells beautifully.
01:17:55The sun is shining and we're bringing coffee and eating cakes.
01:18:01It's been Karsten's toughest test, taking him and the ship to the limit, but they survived.
01:18:11Very much wind.
01:18:13I've never been sailing in so much wind before with this boat.
01:18:18We have this weak point, the rudder, but everything else seems to work very well, very well.
01:18:29In later centuries, shipbuilders abandoned the side-mounted steerboard and started using
01:18:36a central rudder, as modern ships do.
01:18:39This storm and the dangers faced by the sea stallion have helped us understand why.
01:18:47It has been the voyage's great moment of archaeological insight.
01:18:52Thankfully, the cost was not too great.
01:19:06The sea stallion has reached the Isle of Man, a place with a rich Viking past.
01:19:12In the 10th century, the Vikings founded a parliament here on the island that still rules to this day.
01:19:19But for this crew, it's a place of rest.
01:19:23Here, look, nice castle, big bridge.
01:19:25I woke up late, actually, which is quite nice.
01:19:27Woke up at 10 o'clock, and it was my birthday, and I got the biggest birthday present you could
01:19:33ever wish for, sunshine, for a whole day.
01:19:38But it's not all lying in the sun.
01:19:41The crew face one final challenge, a race against the local Viking boat team.
01:19:47Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:19:49So who's going to win the race?
01:19:51We are.
01:19:51We are.
01:19:52Arrgh!
01:19:53Arrgh!
01:19:54Arrgh!
01:19:55Yahoo!
01:19:58For the women on board, this is a chance to show that a mixed team can compete against the 10
01:20:03beefy men from the Isle of Man.
01:20:06Come on, si, stallion!
01:20:09Si, stallion!
01:20:10Si, stallion!
01:20:11Si, stallion!
01:20:11Si, stallion!
01:20:12That's good!
01:20:12Trying to sail into each other.
01:20:21It's too easy.
01:20:22After six weeks on a Viking ship, there is no contest.
01:20:26It's a completely different style of rowing.
01:20:28The locals there, they're using their arms.
01:20:30They've got big, powerful arms, and that's how they do it.
01:20:35The way we're doing it, they use their backs, and their stomachs, and their arms, the whole body.
01:20:50For Louise, this victory is particularly sweet.
01:20:55Five women on board, and five men, so they were beaten by half a women crew, yeah.
01:21:18The sea stallion sets off on its final stretch of open sea, a 24-hour sail across to Ireland.
01:21:39This time, the ship glides over the big ocean waves with ease.
01:21:56Their penultimate stop is at Malahide, just north of Dublin, where the ship and its captain are
01:22:03cleaned up, ready for their grand arrival.
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01:22:35The ship has traveled 1,000 nautical miles during 220 hours of sailing.
01:22:42On the way, the crew have eaten 600 kilograms of meat,
01:22:46half a ton of porridge, and almost a ton of bread.
01:22:51They've sailed through gale-force winds and the wettest summer on record.
01:23:03And finally, they're nearing their destination.
01:23:15Whoa, that's close.
01:23:23With the wind behind them, the sea stallion is going to sail up the River Liffey
01:23:28and right into the heart of Dublin,
01:23:30where the original sea stallion was built, 965 years ago.
01:23:35Amazing. There's a lot of boats here, just like when we left Rosskilde.
01:23:44Oh, my.
01:23:52What a time!
01:23:53What a time!
01:24:09Really excited now.
01:24:11Fantastic.
01:24:12We are crying a little bit.
01:24:15It's funny to hear here.
01:24:24We made it in one piece, with the boat still in one piece.
01:24:27It's a good feeling to arrive finally.
01:24:30Send your line in so I can see it!
01:24:34Now I won't listen to that man anymore.
01:24:44I don't know.
01:24:47No!
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01:24:53No!
01:24:54walk me off a bit, just how important this is. Coming in here with a Viking trip for
01:24:59the first time in a thousand years, and just as luck has it, the wind is just absolutely
01:25:03perfect. It's magnificent.
01:25:25The city of Dublin was founded by the Vikings as a place to shelter during the winter.
01:25:38They occupied it for 300 years, and it was a key stronghold in the Western Viking Empire.
01:25:49Ships like the sea stallion were built here, and sailed the North Sea. Now this Viking
01:25:56ship has come home.
01:26:31The ship has one last leg on its journey. It's being placed on display here in Dublin
01:26:38at the National Museum of Ireland. It's provided the archaeologists with a wealth of data on
01:26:44how Viking longships really sailed.
01:26:49Carsten has spent years preparing for this voyage and picking the crew. He's successfully
01:26:55brought them to Ireland. Now, he has to leave the ship behind.
01:27:00My family will get tired of me hearing about the sea stallion for the next couple of months.
01:27:15The sea stallion will stay in Dublin for a year. This summer, it will make the return journey
01:27:22round the south coast of England, back to Denmark, with or without the same crew.
01:27:30I think we'll do it again next year. Sitting here in the rain, I'm not sure.
01:27:36Definitely. Definitely. I'm going to wait for a couple of months and see what happens,
01:27:40but I've got a feeling I might bring me back next year.
01:27:43What? Oh, I don't hate myself enough.
01:27:48For Carsten and the crew, it's been the experience of a lifetime.
01:27:56You can read more about their voyage and see daily videos and diaries at bbc.co.uk forward slash vikingship.
01:28:20And tomorrow night, Time Watch is back with the real bloody story of Omaha Beach. That's at nine.
01:28:26Next tonight on BBC Two, have I got old news for you. Tarantino's revenge thriller Kill Bill Vol. 2's on
01:28:33BBC Three.
01:28:34And on BBC Four, a unique brand new episode of Stingray, specially put together by creator Gerry Anderson.